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A comparison of DNA extraction procedures for the detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer, in clinical and environmental specimens

scientific article published on 17 October 2008

A curve of thresholds governs plague epizootics in Central Asia

scientific article

A model of Leptospirosis infection in an African rodent to determine risk to humans: seasonal fluctuations and the impact of rodent control.

scientific article published on 20 September 2006

Adaptability of large carnivores to changing anthropogenic food sources: diet change of spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) during Christian fasting period in northern Ethiopia

scientific article published on 4 April 2012

Amoebae as Potential Environmental Hosts for Mycobacterium ulcerans and Other Mycobacteria, but Doubtful Actors in Buruli Ulcer Epidemiology

scientific article

Animal Ownership and Touching Enrich the Context of Social Contacts Relevant to the Spread of Human Infectious Diseases

scientific article

Application of real-time PCR in Ghana, a Buruli ulcer-endemic country, confirms the presence of Mycobacterium ulcerans in the environment

scientific article published on 18 January 2010

Are populations of European earwigs,Forficula auricularia, density dependent?

Climatically driven synchrony of gerbil populations allows large-scale plague outbreaks

scientific article published in August 2007

Comparing arenavirus infection patterns in experimentally and naturally infected rodent hosts

Comparing strategies for controlling an African pest rodent: an empirically based theoretical study

scientific article published in 2002

Comparison of multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) demography in monoculture and mosaic agricultural habitat: Implications for pest management

scientific article published in August 2009

Complementary DNA sequences encoding the multimammate rat MHC class II DQ alpha and beta chains and cross-species sequence comparison in rodents

scholarly article

Demography, reproductive biology and diet of the bushveld gerbil Tatera leucogaster (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) in the Lake Rukwa valley, south-western Tanzania

scientific article

Density dependence and persistence of Morogoro arenavirus transmission in a fluctuating population of its reservoir host

scientific article published on 06 October 2019

Density thresholds for Mopeia virus invasion and persistence in its host Mastomys natalensis.

scientific article published on 4 October 2012

Dietary differences of the multimammate mouse, Mastomys natalensis (Smith, 1834), across different habitats and seasons in Tanzania and Swaziland

scientific article published in 2011

Dietary selection in Mastomys natalensis (Rodentia: Muridae) in the maize agro-ecosystems of central and southwestern Tanzania

scientific article published in January 2008

Dispersal in Mastomys natalensis mice: use of fine-scale genetic analyses for pest management

scientific article

Dispersal of single- and double-brood populations of the European earwig, Forficula auricularia: a mark-recapture experiment

scientific article published on 2 September 2010

Do farming practices influence population dynamics of rodents? A case study of the multimammate field rats, Mastomys natalensis, in Tanzania

scientific article published in September 2007

Do wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus L.) use food selection as a means to reduce heavy metal intake?

scientific article published on 07 June 2007

Ecology and seasonality of sandflies and potential reservoirs of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ochollo, a hotspot in southern Ethiopia

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Effects of grazing intensity on small mammal population ecology in wet meadows

scientific article published in January 2005

Effects of predation and dispersal on Mastomys natalensis population dynamics in Tanzanian maize fields

scientific article

Empirical assessment of a threshold model for sylvatic plague

scientific article

Environmental conditions and Puumala virus transmission in Belgium

scientific article published on 14 December 2007

Eradication of hantavirus infection among laboratory rats by application of caesarian section and a foster mother technique

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

Estimating Time of Infection Using Prior Serological and Individual Information Can Greatly Improve Incidence Estimation of Human and Wildlife Infections

scientific article

Farmer survey in the hinterland of Kisangani (Democratic Republic of Congo) on rodent crop damage and rodent control techniques used

scientific article published in January 2008

Farmers' perspectives of rodent damage and management from the highlands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopian

scientific article published in June 2010

First detection of mycobacteria in African rodents and insectivores, using stratified pool screening.

scientific article published on 7 December 2007

Fishing cat <i>Prionailurus viverrinus</i> distribution and habitat suitability in Nepal

scientific article published on 23 April 2022

Fluctuating rodent populations and risk to humans from rodent-borne zoonoses.

scientific article

Foraging of multimammate mice, Mastomys natalensis, under different predation pressure: cover, patch-dependent decisions and density-dependent GUDs

scientific article published in March 2003

Forecasting Rodent Outbreaks in Africa: An Ecological Basis for Mastomys Control in Tanzania

scientific article published in October 1996

Functional volumes, niche packing and species richness: biogeographic legacies in the Congo Basin

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Genetic diversity, evolutionary history and implications for conservation of the lion (Panthera leo) in West and Central Africa

article

Geographic distribution and ecological niche of plague in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 23 October 2008

Hantavirus disease (nephropathia epidemica) in Belgium: effects of tree seed production and climate

scientific article published on 7 July 2008

Hantavirus infection in Brazilian patients from Recife with suspected leptospirosis

scientific article published in The Lancet

Hantavirus outbreak in Western Europe: reservoir host infection dynamics related to human disease patterns

scientific article published on 10 May 2010

Hantaviruses and their hosts in Europe: reservoirs here and there, but not everywhere?

scientific article published in August 2010

High prevalence of Leptospira spp. in sewer rats (Rattus norvegicus).

scientific article published on 27 April 2009

Historical and genomic data reveal the influencing factors on global transmission velocity of plague during the Third Pandemic.

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

Human plague occurrences in Africa: an overview from 1877 to 2008.

scientific article published on 27 August 2009

Interdisciplinary on-site evaluation of stone bunds to control soil erosion on cropland in Northern Ethiopia

scientific article published in May 2007

Livestock grazing intensity affects abundance of Common shrews (Sorex araneus) in two meadows in Denmark

scientific article

Male hosts drive infracommunity structure of ectoparasites

scientific article published on 16 March 2011

Mammal Taxa Constituting Potential Coevolved Reservoirs of Filoviruses

scientific article published in 2007

Marburg hemorrhagic fever associated with multiple genetic lineages of virus

scientific article published in August 2006

Mice, Rats, and People: The Bio-Economics of Agricultural Rodent Pests

scientific article published in 2003

Microgeographical distribution of shrews (Mammalia, Soricidae) in the Congo River basin (Kisangani, D.R. Congo)

scientific article published in January 2008

Modeling the epidemiological history of plague in Central Asia: palaeoclimatic forcing on a disease system over the past millennium

scientific article

Monitoring rodents movements with a biomarker around introduction and feeding foci in an urban environment in Tanzania

scientific article published in October 2007

Mopeia virus-related arenavirus in natal multimammate mice, Morogoro, Tanzania

scientific article published on December 2009

Natural and human causes of earwig mortality during winter: temperature, parasitoids and soil tillage

scientific article published on 3 October 2011

New data on the distribution and phylogenetic position of Mastomys awashensis (Rodentia, Muridae)

scholarly article by Paolo Colangelo et al published September 2010 in Mammalian Biology

New ideas for personal library maintenance software.

scientific article published on November 1993

Non-destructive pollution exposure assessment by means of wood mice hair

scientific article published on 07 July 2006

Occurrence of free-living amoebae in communities of low and high endemicity for Buruli ulcer in southern Benin

scientific article

On the economic benefit of predicting rodent outbreaks in agricultural systems

article

Optimizing biocontrol using phenological day degree models: the European earwig in pipfruit orchards

Palatability and toxicity of fipronil as a systemic insecticide in a bromadiolone rodenticide bait for rat and flea control

scientific article published on September 2001

Parasites and pest population management

Phylogeography of the introduced species Rattus rattus in the western Indian Ocean, with special emphasis on the colonization history of Madagascar

article

Plague and climate: scales matter

scientific article

Plague dynamics are driven by climate variation.

scientific article

Plague metapopulation dynamics in a natural reservoir: the burrow system as the unit of study

scientific article published on 7 December 2006

Plague: past, present, and future

scientific article

Polyandry and polygyny in an African rodent pest species, Mastomys natalensis

scientific article published in January 2008

Polymorphism and signatures of selection in the multimammate rat DQB gene

scientific article published on 2 December 2009

Population dynamics of small mammals in semi-arid regions: a comparative study of demographic variability in two rodent species.

scientific article

Population, environmental, and community effects on local bank vole (Myodes glareolus) Puumala virus infection in an area with low human incidence

scientific article

Predicting potential risk areas of human plague for the Western Usambara Mountains, Lushoto District, Tanzania

scientific article

Predictive thresholds for plague in Kazakhstan

scientific article published on April 2004

Preliminary investigation on rodent-ectoparasite associations in the highlands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: implications for potential zoonoses

scientific article published in December 2011

Presence of Mopeia virus, an African arenavirus, related to biotope and individual rodent host characteristics: implications for virus transmission

scientific article published on 13 December 2010

Productivity of Different Generations in a Population of Mastomys natalensis Rats in Tanzania

scientific article published in October 1993

Puumala hantavirus and Myodes glareolus in northern Europe: no evidence of co-divergence between genetic lineages of virus and host

scientific article published on 27 January 2010

Quantifying causes of discard variability: an indispensable assistance to discard estimation and a paramount need for policy measures

scientific article published on 29 March 2011

Reconciling biodiversity and carbon stock conservation in an Afrotropical forest landscape.

scientific article

Reproductive success of bromadiolone-resistant rats in absence of anticoagulant pressure

scientific article published in 2006

Risk of human-to-wildlife transmission of SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Saaremaa hantavirus in Denmark

scientific article

Seasonal and habitat dependence of fleas parasitic on small mammals in Tanzania

scientific article published on June 2009

Seasonal variation in growth of Mastomys natalensis (Rodentia: Muridae) in Morogoro, Tanzania

scientific article published in December 1990

Shrew trap efficiency: experience from primary forest, secondary forest, old fallow land and old palm plantation in the Congo River basin (Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo)

scientific article published in January 2008

Soil type limits population abundance of rodents in crop fields: case study of the multimammate rat Mastomys natalensis Smith, 1834 in Tanzania

scientific article

Stochastic seasonality and nonlinear density-dependent factors regulate population size in an African rodent

scientific article published in September 1997

Survival and maturation rates of the African rodent, Mastomys natalensis: density‐dependence and rainfall ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2007

Survival-variation within and between functional categories of the African multimammate rat

scientific article published in 1999

Sympatric occurrence of 3 arenaviruses, Tanzania

scientific article published in April 2010

Taxonomy of the African giant pouched rats (Nesomyidae: Cricetomys): molecular and craniometric evidence support an unexpected high species diversity

scientific article published on 26 June 2012

Temporal variation in individual factors associated with hantavirus infection in bank voles during an epizootic: implications for Puumala virus transmission dynamics

scientific article

Terrestrial small mammals as reservoirs of Mycobacterium ulcerans in benin

scientific article

The Effect of Predation Risk on Body Weight in the Field Vole, Microtus agrestis

scientific article published in November 1999

The Year of the Rat ends - time to fight hunger!

scientific article published in April 2009

The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon

scientific article published on July 2008

The bioeconomics of controlling an African rodent pest species

scientific article published on 13 July 2006

The ecology of large carnivores in the highlands of northern Ethiopia

scientific article published on 8 September 2012

The impact of the Congo River and its tributaries on the rodent genus Praomys: speciation origin or range expansion limit?

scientific article published on 25 October 2011

The presence of Praomys, Lophuromys, and Deomys species (Muridae, Mammalia) in the forest blocks separated by the Congo River and its tributaries (Kisangani region, Democratic Republic of Congo)

scientific article published in January 2008

The prevalence of Mycobacterium bovis-infection and atypical mycobacterioses in cattle in and around Morogoro, Tanzania

scientific article

The use of high-resolution remote sensing for plague surveillance in Kazakhstan

scientific article published on 15 March 2010

Three arenaviruses in three subspecific natal multimammate mouse taxa in Tanzania: same host specificity, but different spatial genetic structure?

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Traditional and geometric morphometrics for studying skull morphology during growth inMastomys natalensis(Rodentia: Muridae)

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

Uncovering the secret lives of sewer rats (Rattus norvegicus): movements, distribution and population dynamics revealed by a capture - mark - recapture study

scientific article published in 2012

Vitamin K requirement in Danish anticoagulant-resistant Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus).

scientific article published in August 2003

When Viruses Don't Go Viral: The Importance of Host Phylogeographic Structure in the Spatial Spread of Arenaviruses

scientific article

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